Problem Opening Pixel Bender Filter

I just recently downloaded this Pixel Bender Filter for Photoshop CS4 (Win 32-bit). I downloaded it and finished installing with the adobe extension manager. However when I tried to use the pixel bender filter, photoshop becomes non responding and says: Adobe Photoshop CS4 has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Does anyone know why this is happening? Looks like a sick filter and I wanna use it!
Thanks

I believe your card is a shader model 2 card, we require a minimum of shader model 3, so the Pixel Bender plugin should warn you up front that your graphics hardware is not supported. I'm not sure why the plugin is not doing so but I do not expect Pixel Bender to work on your hardware. Sorry.

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hi, i really need help, i been spending hours trying to fix it
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Post your win7 reliability history crash reports for your Photoshop CC crashes

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How to upload Pixel Bender Filter to Photoshop CS5 on Mac? It installs to Utility Folder and I cant understand install from there? Haven't installed a plug in for a while!

The link for the photoshop cs5/cs5.1 pixel bender plugin is broken on the pixel bender web page, so you probably installed the pixel bender toolkit.
Below are the links for the photoshop cs5/cs5.1 pixel bender plugin.
CS5 64 bit
Here is the pixel bender plugin for the 64 bit version of photoshop cs5 on windows and mac
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/pixelbender/pixelbenderplugin_p3_pscs5_64bit_ 061711.mxp
For the 32 bit version of photoshop cs5 on windows
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/pixelbender/pixelbenderplugin_p3_pscs5_32bit_ 061711.mxp
If you have photoshop cs5.1
windows cs5.1 32 bits
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/pixelbender/pixelbenderplugin_p3_pscs5-1_32bi t_061711.mxp
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http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/pixelbender/pixelbenderplugin_p3_pscs5-1_64bi t_061711.mxp

Alpha channel problem with Pixel Bender blendShaders

I'm using Pixel Blender to try and create a blend shader for a Flex 4.0 app.
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<languageVersion : 1.0;>
kernel PixelReverse
<   namespace : "com.abc.def.filters";
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    version : 1;
>
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        dst.g = 1.0 - abs(fgPixel.g - bgPixel.g);
        dst.b = 1.0 - abs(fgPixel.b - bgPixel.b);
        dst.a = fgPixel.a;
It looks correct in the Pixel Bender preview window.
When I use it in a Flex project with proper 32 bit png images, the filter seems to work correctly, except it sets any partial alpha value on the images to fully opaque (like a 1 bit alpha channel).
Because the image preview looks correct in Pixel Bender, I'm assuming it's a problem with the bitmap data that Flex is passing to the blend shader filter.
I tried changing the filter to simply output a copy of the foreground firstly, and the background second, to test.
When returning a copy of the foreground, the imags weren't visible on stage, either because the pixels were transparent or because it was really returning the background pixels, camouflaging the images.
When returning a copy of the background, the images were just black rectangles.
The images are being place on stage programmatically inside an mx Module, and having their depth property set.
They also have draggable behaviour, where the current drag object is layered above all else during the drag.
I'm actually using a subclass of mx.controls.Image, but am simply setting the source property with preloaded bitmap data, so I'm am fairly sure the subclass is not a factor.
I hope this is enough information for someone to be able to provide some help.
Thanks

Please make sure you have installed the latest graphics drivers, from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us, for your graphics card.

Problem with Pixel Bender

Hi - I am 85 years old and not very experienced with computer jargon etc. My problems with Pixel Benders only started after I recently had my Dell 64 bit computer upgraded. Previously it used Windows XP and had 4 gigs of RAM my graphics card had only 64 MB. HOWEVER, before the upgrade Pixel Bender filters worked perfectly, I have a folder in "My Pictures" that contains 65 images that have all been treated with a variety of P B filters, I am very pleased with the results. My software includes Photoshop CS5 also Lightroom 3.
My upgrade, done by a professional technician, involved, wiping my internal hard drive completely (everything was backed up on two external hard drives) the installation of Windows 7 - 64 bit and additional RAM (it now has 8 gigs) When it came to re installing the Pixel Benders it was a nightmare. I had to make several calls to Adobe technical support before it would download I even had to allow the technician to access my computer. The next problem was that the Pixel Benders would no work. I looked at the Adobe Forum and found that others had experienced the same problem. One solution seemed to be to install a graphics card with more MB, I therefore bought a GeForce GTSD 250 that has 1 GB of RAM. Whereas the 65 pictures in my Pixel Bender folder are 2000 pixels on the longest edge using my new system and graphics card the Pixel Bender filters will not work on any image that is more than 1000 pixels on the longest edge. Can anyone out there explain the reason for this?
littlemester, Sheffield, England

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Problems with pixel bender toolkit 2.5 for photoshop cs5

hi, i just installed the pixel bender toolkit 2.5 and i am trying to use it on photoshop but it won`t appear on the filters menu, and there should be a folder named Pixel Bender Files in the photoshop cs5 folder but there isn't any.. so what is going on???

It will NOT work, PB has been totally ruined.
So what I did was to upgrade to PS CS6, and its there in the filter menu.
I didnt get back to this forum till today, and sorry I didnt get the info to post ready.
Ive used the oil paint filter a lot since, its worth the upgrade to PS 6. But its nasty of them to take stuff out that we like to make us spend more $.
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Is this cost cutting? Nope, not with AAPL, they have penty of dough.
Is this just youngsters in the app developing work who have not used the older and nice stuff? We dont know, but what ever you do, DO NOT give your older Macs away, as you will lose some of this fun stuff, and Adobe better learn too, as we oldsters use the old stuff. I dont like the Cloud prices either, so I upgraded all my Adobe stuff before they did that.
And do NOT get rid of the old PSE programs, as you can scan paper money and I use it for my web page background images, but I do distort it.
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WHY: Crashing problems with Pixel-Bender Plug-In in PS CS5...

WHY is my PS CS5 crashing, when TRYING to use Pixel Bender Plug-In...?!?
Its correctly installed, shows up in the Filtermenubar of PS, It just shows the first filter and when I try to choose another one, PS just shuts down...?!?
(PS CS5 (12.0) (Win 32–bit) / (W7 Ultimate, 2GB RAM, P6100 2GHz, 118 Gb free of 195 GB Harddrive).
PlugIn from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender.html
HELP PLEASE... Thanks !!!

PB requires a reasonably juicy graphics hardware and well, your specs clearly indicate that this is not the case. It will probably never work, but as a minor update your graphics driver...
Mylenium

Pixel Bender filter to process DICOM images

I was wondering whether it would be possible to process DICOM
images (used in medical)? It would be great if the high-speed
processing engine of Pixel Bender would be able to change
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result of course). Anybody any ideas?

I don't see any reason why you couldn't use Pixel Bender to
process the image if you had the right DICOM decoder (image
loader). The only requirement for processing using Pixel Bender is
that you need the image data in a big buffer with a < 4 channel
chunky format.
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I've got the exact same problem:
Trying to open the Pixel Bender Toolkit, it immediately closes after initiation. No message whatsoever.
I hadn't used the plug-in for a while, I have changed my graphic card to an unsupported NVidia card. But the Pixel Bender filters do open in Photoshop CS5(12.0 64-bit), although new filter don't seem to show up (but that might be a different issue)

Installed pixel bender but it doesn't show up under filter

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Thanks............Ralph

Duuuh. I finally figured it out. I had to right click on the Cs5 Extension Manager and not the executable file which was what I was doing. Right clicked the Extension Manager and selected run in administrator mode and it ran successfully. Started CS5 and the pixel bender filter was there.
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Again thank you for fixing my problem..........Ralph

Pixel Bender will not open in PS CS5 (not enough RAM)

I get the following message when I try to open Pixel Bender in Photoshop CS5:
Could not complete the Pixel Bender Gallery command because there is not enough memory (RAM).
I have 4GB RAM on a Mac Mini 2gHz Core Duo, and I have never had another plug in fail to load. Requirements are supposed to be the same as CS5.
Any suggestions?

Thanks for your response.
Photoshop is running in 32-bit mode, as most of my plug ins are not yet 64 bit.
This error dialog appears before the gallery opens.
All my images are under 4096 px wide. I tried using a much smaller image. Same message.
I tried increasing the available memory in preferences. Same message.
I tried lowering the available memory in preferences. Same message.
My Mac Mini has an NVidia 9500M, which is listed as one of the cards that support GPU processing for Pixel Bender. Memory is shared with the CPU, but that should not be relevant - many others would have had my complaint if that mattered.

Pixel Bender problems

I used the Oil Paint filter on an image, but when I then tried to use the Brush Stroke filter, it was grayed out (along with several other filters).. I converted the original image to a smart object before applying the Oil Paint filter in Pixel Bender. The technique is one used in a Kelby tutorial, but in that one the instructor used the Brush Stroke filter. Nobody in the Pixel Bender forum has an answer. In addition, I tried to uninstall the plug-in and Extension Manager said I lacked the appropriate permission to remove Pixel Bender. I am logged in as Adminstrator, so I don't know what further permission I might need.

Is your image 16 bits/channel and is that one of the pixel bender filters or Photoshop filter effects filter
Filter>Brush Strokes?
Try converting your image to RGB color and 8 bits/channel. Image>Mode.
To uninstall the pixel bender filter right click on the extension manager shortcut and choose Run as Administrator.
MTSTUNER

CS5 shuts down everytime I access Pixel Bender Gallery then Oil Paint"

CS5 shuts down every time I open Pixel Bender Gallery_"Oil Paint" selection only. I've spent most of the day trying to use the Pixel Bender plug-in that's located in CS5 FILTER Menu. I am on an iMac OS X--Snow Leopard. The time I didn't spend on rer-opening CS5 I used trying to find the way to ask a question. Yes, I know that's lame
, but I'm 66 yrs old so don't yell at me!

The crash log is from Photoshop; yes, this problem only happens with
"oil paint Filter"; pixel dimensions are 432-width x 288-height (resolution is 72) The only info I can get about GPU is:
Chipset Model:          NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
Type:          GPU
Bus:          PCIe
PCIe Lane Width:          x16
VRAM (Total):          128 MB
Vendor:          NVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID:          0x0395
Revision ID:          0x00a1
ROM Revision:          3022
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Pixel bender error in ps cs4

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I have web design premium cs4, I have always had problems running opengl on the system using my cintiq (3d won't work unless I set my cintiq to be the primary monitor)
anyway I had pixel bender toolkit installed with WDP CS4 and but everytime I try to launch the pixel bender gallery from ps I get an error message: "a pixel bender error occurred: " nothing else, the pixel bender toolkit launches fine, but I thought perhaps since it did work once, I needed to update it, checked the newest version of pixel bender toolkit and downloaded it since it was the newer version as well as the pixel bIender plugins, have installed (both 32 and 64 bit)
I then proceeded to uninstall install both versions of the plugin (separately not together) and tested both, same result. I assumed the install of pixel bender toolkit would uninstall previous versions, which it did not, so I thought that I should uninstall via control panel, but to no avail the uninstaller wouldn't allow me to uninstall pixel bender toolkit by itself, so I can't uninstall, at least not that way.
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many thanks beforehand for any help you can provide
(I apologize for the grammer, I was typing this a thousand miles a second, I have a ton to do today)

Turn off dual GPU usage in your card prefs.
Mylenium

Where´s Pixel Bender Photoshop CS4 Plugin?

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Now, that page was redesigned and that link is no longer there.
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